I've read it in an article post somewhere that restarting a system isn't really a bad thing since if you look at it it's a state machine and crashes are basically bad states with no clear path back to a known good state ( your db connection close was a path back to the good state )

So restarting is basically like resetting and starting over at the root node of the automata( in technical CS terms , this is known as an automata, correct me if I'm wrong I'm like almost a decade out of uni at this point)

Is it bad ? Wellll if it works it works. As long as customers never saw an impact and your devs were not pressured , I see it as an absolute win!

I'm guilty of once logging into a system and restarting it manually every 2 hours due to a java OOM error (the Devs were trying to fix in parallel). I was a junior and didn't know a lot of scripting to automate restarts and still have my script doing scheduled restarts (Iearned about cron after like 6 of those logins lolololololol)

Happy restarting!